Henry Charles Taylor

Name     Henry Charles Taylor

Number    Private 519

Battalion      21^th Battalion  

Place of Birth   Melbourne

Next of Kin   His mother, Mrs. Daisy Cashin of Tarwin Lower, widow

Date and place of enlistment   Boolarra 13/1/1915

Physical details on enlistment   Age 21 years and 2 months, 5’ 7”, 144 pounds, and light brown eyes

Religion   Church of England

Occupation   farm hand

Date and place of death

He was missing in action on 3/5/1917 at Bullecourt and was declared to have been killed at a Court of Enquiry held on 20/7/1917.

Location of memorial

He has no known grave and is remembered on the Memorial at Villers Bretonneux

Relationship to Woorayl Shire

He was from Tarwin Lower

Military History

• He is on the Meeniyan Honour Roll
• 13/1/15 He enlisted in Boolarra
• 10/5/15 He embarked Melbourne on HMAT Ulysses
• 29/8/15 He was at Gallipoli
• 1/1/16 He had mumps and was admitted to the General Hospital Mudros
• He was ill in Heliopolis and Giza Egypt
• 31/5/16 He embarked Alexandria
• 5/6/16 He disembarked Marseilles
• 20/11/16 He went to France having been in England
• 27/1/17 He joined units
• In March he suffered from exhaustion
• 31/3/17 He rejoined his battalion
• 3/5/17 He was missing in action
• 20/7/17 He is declared to have been killed in action on 3/5/17 by a Court of Inquiry
• 7/8/21 Mrs. Cashin wrote asking for the location of his grave.
• Daisy asks for a pension as a widow and a mother of a dead soldier
• He is remembered on Villers Bretonneux Memorial